“Dance is an immediate language. It’s very direct. You don’t have to have as much translation, when it comes to dance,” Danielle Deadwyler tells dstfelix, in a new interview.
“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf.” Local press reviews of those early plays tended to home in on Deadwyler, and her willingness to completely relinquish her petite body to action.
Can you tell me about coming up in the theatre scene in Atlanta? You are a pillar of the community there. Looking through your archive, I’ve been so desperate to see recordings of your pieces. I’m trying to cobble together the performances from stills, descriptions..] That’s the value of the oral history in the African and African American community.How fucking exciting is it to sit and have a Black elder tell you what was. That’s the critical Black imagination. In a world that [forces] you to be there so often, don’t be there.
How has motherhood figured in your work? How has the experience heightened your relationship to your instrument, which is your body? Whenever a role of yours is announced, I think to myself, Danielle is unpredictable. You are like water, as the actor Enoch King once described you, capable of fitting the grooves of any genre. How do you manage the parallel careers of directing your own work and then being a vessel for another artist’s agenda?
This whole life thing is getting to some ego death. Particularly Black artists, coming into the Hollywood dynamic. There is acting as acting and acting as being. I’ve read that you did the “Till” audition with your son.
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